Sunday, November 30, 2014

google cache of very racist article, now deleted, by Robert Wilkes of the Seattle chapter of Stand With Us (Twitter discussions here and here);

"The Pathology of Max Blumenthal" by Gilad Atzmon (though I must say there is something definitely odd - and in no way connected with guilt - about the German elites who think it is a good idea to continue to supply Israel with subs capable of firing nuclear missiles);

Friday, November 28, 2014

"Leaked email: Save the Children trying to “contain” damage from Tony Blair award" When you call yourself 'Save the Children', you probably shouldn't be giving awards to a mass child murderer. There is plenty of competition for charity dollars, and this vile one shouldn't see another cent from anybody, ever.

When Harper's Reform Party - now called Conservative Party after it ate and digested the old Progressive Conservative Party - started out, it turned out a lot of its members were neo-Nazis, and the party had to go through a considerable Denazifizierung process to become respectable enough for mainstream Canadian politics (Harper himself has quite a history with extremist right-wing organizations). Now we've come full circle, with Harper arming neo-Nazis:

"Menace of hypocrisy: Neocon propagandist frets over Russia’s ‘weaponization of information’" It is quite remarkable how western media and politicians ascribe their own actions and motives to the Russians.

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Finding a common thread in the injustices faced by black people in the US and gentiles in Occupied Palestine is definitely not Good For The Jews: "#JusticeForMikeBrown: NFL star Reggie Bush connects Ferguson to Palestine". Note the condescension in Abe's response - schwartzers aren't intellectually up to the challenge of political analysis and should stick to entertaining white people: "ADL: Reggie Bush’s Ferguson-Palestine Comparison Demonstrates “Severe Lack of Understanding” of Both Issues".

"Sen. Ted Cruz, ’16 Presidential Hopeful, Woos New York Jewish Donors – UPDATED" Note the update was an order from Sheldon to remove the idea that Sheldon said Cruz was 'too right wing'. World Jewry is entirely happy with Hillary, so I'm expecting the Republicans to nominate some unelectable clown like Cruz.

"Michèle Flournoy Takes Herself Out of Running for Top Pentagon Job" She intends to be Hillary's Secretary of Defense, surrounded by pure neocons, and doesn't want to queer the deal by two years of being associated with Barry's liberal interventionist losers.

And then the portal opened and the entire universe was sucked into Hell.

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

The Jewish billionaires have finally told Barry their price for funding his very comfortable retirement - more Wars For The Jews. They had to wait for the Republicans to retake the Senate so they could force a neocon Secretary of Defense. In quick succession in the last few days we've seen:

Barry extending and expanding the War For The Jews in Afghanistan;

the mysterious collapse of the Iran peace talks (Iran thought they were headed for a deal and suddenly the other side turned away - see also "France Mistral Ship Update: Hollande Suspends Decision To Deliver Warships To Russia" connected for the War For The Jews against Russia being carried on in Ukraine);

the rather vicious firing of Hagel, the viciousness coming no doubt from the Jewish idea that he is an anti-Semite due to his skepticism at running all American foreign and military policy solely for the benefit of Zionism;

a new call for more sanctions on Iran in order to undermine any chances for peace (note the change from November 21 - "Why Is AIPAC Suddenly So Silent on Iran?" to November 24 - "AIPAC Leads Call for Sanctions to Sabotage Iran Talks").

Monday, November 24, 2014

"The immediate question is whether Obama will be able to stomach a stronger personality in the secretary of defense job–someone like Bob Gates or Leon Panetta. If so, Michele Flournoy or Ash Carter, both of whom served at the Pentagon earlier in the Obama administration, could fill the job description. But if Obama were truly intent on a radical break with some of his failed policies he would opt for a true outsider like Joe Lieberman . . . "

and:

"Regardless of who fills the job at the Pentagon–or for that matter at
State–the reality remains that in this administration all critical
decisions are made in the White House by the president with a handful of
loyalists who have little independent standing, knowledge, or
credibility in national-security affairs. This has been a problem ever
since the raid to kill Osama bin Laden, the point at which Obama stopped
listening to independent advice and started acting on his own
ideological worldview predicated on downsizing the American armed forces
and retreating from the world.If this were a parliamentary system, Obama would long ago have lost a
vote of “no confidence” and been forced to step down. But because it’s a
presidential system he will remain in power two more years. The firing
of Hagel will be a positive step forward only if it signals a complete
rethink of the president’s foreign policy a la Carter’s conversion to
become a born-again hawk after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and
the Iranian hostage crisis.
The test of that will be to see how Obama deals with Iran now that
nuclear talks have reached an impasse after a year. Will Obama allow the
mullahs to drag out negotiations indefinitely while continuing to enjoy
sanctions relief? Or will he clamp down with extra-tough sanctions and
implement a plan to roll back Iran’s power grab in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon,
and Yemen? My bet is that not much has changed in the president’s
thinking beyond his desire to see a new, more credible face at the
Pentagon, but I’m happy to be proved wrong."

"In 2012, as the Obama administration was deciding on a new Pentagon
chief, rightwing groups attempted to promote a Flournoy candidacy. The
rightwing Times of Israel reported in December 2012 that talk
of Flournoy's nomination had been "welcomed by conservative and
pro-Israel groups," in part because of Flournoy's familiarity with
Israeli security issues like the Iron Dome missile shield, regional arms
sales, "and the importance of Israel's military edge over its
neighbors."[17]
Numerous neoconservative actors also promoted Flournoy's candidacy
because of their opposition to leading nominee—and Obama's eventual
choice for the position—Chuck Hagel, a former Republican senator known
for his bipartisanship as well as his criticism of one-sided U.S.
support for Israel.
In December 2012, the New Republic reported that,
"Flournoy—the Pentagon's former undersecretary of defense for policy,
and the head of Obama's transition team for the Department of
Defense—has become the name that conservatives have floated as an
alternative to Obama's rumored pick to replace Leon Panetta: Former
Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, whom Republicans have never forgiven for
his role as one of the Iraq war's greatest critics and his occasional
endorsements of Democrats. Flournoy's apparent supporters now include
the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol
(who essentially argued that she wouldn't be as objectionable as
Hagel), former George W. Bush administration Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, and [Mitt Romney] foreign policy adviser Dan Senor."[18]"

It is amazing to read the upside down military propaganda spread by the American mainstream media, such as this account of the government of Syria fighting al-Qaeda terrorist forces: "Aleppo, Syria, could soon be under siege by government troops"

"Pro-Israel activists ask MPs to halt non-violent BDS protests" Another part of the never-ending destructiveness of World Jewry in attempting to shield JSIL.

"The Many Iranian Obstacles in the Way of a Strong Nuclear Deal" Two Jews discuss how to wreck peace between gentiles. Note the 'funny' caption under the picture, revealing the enormous lack of professionalism in The Atlantic, and the essential Zionist propaganda message of the piece.

Sunday, November 23, 2014

"Since Israeli governments proved time and again that “facts on the
ground” are very hard to change, and given the distinct possibility that
the shifting balance of world-power will dramatically fortify Israel as
an irreplaceable ally for the west, the successful enactment of
apartheid will postpone indefinitely the creation of a Palestinian state
and shift the site of conflict and oppression from the occupied
territories to the very core of Israeli society."

Note that Nuland's War For The Jews in Ukraine is supposed to bring about the New
Cold War, allowing Israel to go back to its status of the 80's, when it
supposedly served as an anti-Soviet bulwark for the Americans. World Jewry created Islamophobia and the Global War On Terror to replace the loss of the Cold War, but people are finally tiring of all the hate and expense of the GWOT, and World Jewry has decided to recreate the Cold War to continue its parasitic relationship with the Americans. Nuland is working from the long-term plan of World Jewry.

Saturday, November 22, 2014

"Since its occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East
Jerusalem following the 1967 war, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) has
destroyed more than 18,000 Palestinian homes in the Occupied Palestinian
Territory (OPT)."

Note the blatant racism in the demolition of the homes of the families of Palestinian 'terrorists'; that kind of punishment is never applied if an exactly identical crime, not to mention a much, much, much more common crime, is committed by a Jew against Palestinians.

"A few hours after the attack in Jerusalem, journalist Emily Amrousi said
at a conference in Eilat that the life of a single Jewish child was
more important to her than the lives of thousands of Palestinian
children. The audience’s response was clearly favorable; I think there
was even some applause."

"A 'Child' Is Missing–From a New York Times Headline" Of course, one of the best consequences of the squatter rabbi removals was that everybody noticed the extreme overreaction of wailing by the Jew-controlled mainstream American media, with absolutely no recognition of the ongoing slaughter, often mass slaughter, of Palestinians.

"Synagogue killings on the site of an Israeli massacre of Palestinians" That yeshiva was where it was as a celebration of Jewish power, and those foreign-born rabbis where all where they were for a reason, and cannot in any way be described as innocents.

Friday, November 21, 2014

"Washington plays Russian roulette" by Pepe Escobar. I don't foresee WWIII, but this War For The Jews has turned Ukraine into a permanent, unsalvageable basket-case, Europe is going to end up much poorer than it now, and Russia has been forced to accelerate the process of creating the new world order led by the BRICS.

"John Baird: Russia’s aggression is against its own best interest" Bizarre collection of lies from the closet-case whose whole life is a lie.

"Noting that the attack site is located in what used to be Deir Yassin
— a Palestinian village destroyed in 1948 after Zionist militias
deliberately executed more than one hundred of its inhabitants,
including children — the Post rendered the massacre an unproven accusation against Israel.
Following an uproar on social media, the Postquietly removed the reference to Deir Yassin from the piece without issuing an explanation or correction."

The Onion: "5 Million Illegal Immigrants To Realize Dreams Of Having Deportation Deferred"

Not The Onion: "Prince Albert Raiders' new mascot causes stir: Western Hockey League team unveils Boston the Arabian raider"

Thursday, November 20, 2014

"How the Israel Lobby Protected Ukrainian Neo-Nazis" by Max Blumenthal. The most violent and illegal excesses of the War For The Jews in Ukraine are being fought by neo-Nazis, so naturally the ADL and the Simon Wiesenthal Center back off. You can only understand Ukraine if you see it clearly for what it is, just another in a massive series of wars that form the conspiracy where Jewish Billionaires, working solely for the interests of World Jewry, bribe and blackmail western politicians to fight the wars between gentiles desired by World Jewry.

For the same reasons, the British government allows neo-Nazis to celebrate Nazi war dead at the British cenotaph (just think about that for a moment) - thus making a mockery of the purpose of the British cenotaph and the soldiers it memorializes - while simultaneously warmongering by using pious praise of the very same British soldiers. Samantha Power gives another speech about the supposed dangers of anti-Semitism while the American government simultaneously funds and supplies neo-Nazis in Ukraine who commit horrible war crimes and crimes against humanity, and Israel detects an anti-Semitic crisis in Ukraine - as a direct result of the new power and destructive capability of neo-Nazis created by World Jewry - requiring immediate movement of thousands of Jews to Israel. Note the spectacle of Foxman simultaneously making his usual hay over 'anti-Semitism' while effectively backing the neo-Nazis by praising their 'important gestures'.

"It will be one of the consummate ironies of history if the ADL and Simon
Wiesenthal Centre - representatives of an ethnic group excoriated as
untermenschen in Mein Kampf and slated for extermination - are complicit
in the decimation, if not the outright annihilation, of Der Führer's
*other* racial enemies, the 'subhuman Slavs.'"

Of course, the Jewish political desire to bruise Putin for providing support to Iran and Syria is the basis for the new support of the American and British governments and the Jewish supremacist propaganda organizations for today's version of National Socialism. The sentiments about 'anti-Semitism' and hatred and the sacrifices of soldiers and the need to protect international law are just lies they spout to fool us into going along with all the Wars For The Jews, but the stark contradictions between the lies and what they actually support are impossible to hide.

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Somebody ought to tell George that Bibi don't need no excuses, or he just makes them up (or has George forgotten what happened in Gaza over the summer?). Monbiot's political judgment is sohorrible that you have to wonder if he is up to something with his environmental stuff. Oh, and in case you need a deep politics explanation (though you also have to wonder what deep mining - and it is all about resource extraction - politics the BBC is up to):

Lee Harvey Kassig (post-mortem legend building). 'Journalist' and 'aid worker' are (or were - how stupid do they think ISIL is? do they care how much they endanger real journalists and aid workers?) excellent covers for espionage/special ops.

"The Persecution of Julian Assange" by John Pilger. Even the British government seems to be tiring of the evil Swedes.

"Iran Nuclear Pact Faces an Array of Opposing Forces" By 'array' they mean Jews and the scum the Jews pay and blackmail to do their dirty peace-destroying work. Tweets by Ali Gharib (note the silly Saudi threat).

Monday, November 17, 2014

"The AngloZionist Empire has truly become an "Empire of Illusions"" "G20 in Australia: Buffoons v the Global South" The danger lies in the violence committed by the United States as it fails to deal with its diminished role in the world (not to mention the horrible rioting which will take place in the United States - and the even more horrible government over-reaction to the rioting - which will occur when the economic effects of the loss of world reserve currency status are felt by the 99%).

"Caltech prof says Israeli scientist passed NASA rocket secrets to his government" The usual: Jews steal from gentiles for the benefit of the Zionist violent group collective, with no repercussions whatsoever. Naturally ". . . when she reported the matter to Caltech authorities, she was punished for the disclosure." Related:

"Meet the Warmongering Billionaires Who Will Spend a Fortune to Influence the Next President"

"The Real Reason Why Germany Halted Its Gold Repatriation From The NY Fed" I'm starting to think the gold storing countries have a big pile of concrete blocks covered with a thin veneer of gold and whenever one of the deluded countries who are storing their gold come and ask to see it, they are pointed, from a distance, to the same pile. Their gold is long gone, so it can't be repatriated.

"Yemen as exemplar" Iran will quietly and systematically win the proxy wars.

"Publish All Snowden Papers?" by Patrice Riemens. A call for a bigger revolution.

"Central to the PP’s message is the idea that the country’s ‘cultural
elite’ is stabbing Norway in the back, colluding with what its leader
Siv Jensen – Norway’s finance minister – describes as ‘Islamisation by
stealth’. Because liberals are ‘failing liberals’, only an aggressive
party like the PP can defend Norway’s traditions of social liberalism.
Under Jensen, the patriarchal, nostalgic party of Norwegian shopkeepers
has rebranded itself as a feminist party, although its feminism mostly
amounts to what Bangstad (following Gayatri Spivak) calls ‘saving brown
women from brown men’. The ‘polarisation entrepreneurs’ of the PP have a
growing audience, and their arguments an increasing cohesion and
sophistication, thanks to journalists and bloggers like Fjordman and
Walid al-Kubaisi, an exiled Iraqi writer and filmmaker who has played
the role of ‘native informant’ much as Ayaan Hirsi Ali did in Holland.
Their rhetoric is more extreme than the PP’s, but the overlap is too
pronounced to be a coincidence, and some have advised the party. They
form part of a much broader network, an anti-Islam international that
extends from Scandinavia to the United States and includes such figures
as Lars Hedegaard, a prominent right-wing Danish intellectual; the
Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci; the American neoconservatives Daniel
Pipes, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer; and – the maître à penser of
the ‘Eurabia genre’ – Gisèle Littman, a British woman of Egyptian-Jewish
origin who lives in Switzerland and publishes under the pseudonym Bat
Ye’or. (It’s striking how many Eurabia theorists write under pseudonyms
when you consider their attacks on Muslim dissimulation.)
Eurabia
writers believe the West has been weakened by a politically correct cult
of victimhood, yet their own writing (like Breivik’s) appears to be
driven by a personal sense of injury at the hands of Muslims,
reinterpreted, and thereby globalised, through the prism of Samuel
Huntington’s ‘clash of civilisations’. Fjordman, an Arabist from a
left-wing family, was in Cairo on 9/11 when he saw a group of Egyptians
celebrating the attacks. Al-Kubaisi fled from Iraq to avoid serving in
the Iran-Iraq war and received asylum – and a state scholarship
guaranteeing him an income for the rest of his life – in Norway. Bruce
Bawer, an American gay literary critic who moved to Norway in 1999 to be
with his Norwegian partner, came to see Muslim immigrants as an
irredeemably illiberal fifth column. He denounced Breivik as a
‘murderous madman’ but – in his 2012 book The New Quislings: How the International Left Used the Oslo Massacre to Silence Debate about Islam – lifted two fake assertions directly from 2083:
that the Labour Party had employed anarchist militants as storm troops,
and that ‘innumerable Norwegians have been killed by Muslims.’
Eurabia
ideologues have been given a platform by liberal intellectuals and the
Norwegian press. Hysterical polemics about Islam and Muslim immigration
are easy to come by in liberal papers like Klassekampen. So are articles
that confirm the hysteria, such as a recent interview with a Norwegian
admirer of Isis, which appeared in a liberal newspaper without any
editorial note questioning his claim to be speaking for all Muslims.
Liberal tolerance for anti-Muslim hate speech, Bangstad argues, goes
back to the Rushdie affair, when Norway became the first country to
publish The Satanic Verses in translation. Four days after
Khomeini issued the fatwa, a group of Muslim leaders established the
Islamic Defence Council, calling for the novel to be banned and invoking
a blasphemy law that had long since fallen into disuse. In 1993,
Rushdie’s Norwegian publisher, William Nygaard, was shot three times
outside his home in Oslo (he survived); the assailant was never found.
The government responded by forming a series of commissions that called
for expanding the protection of free speech. It was an admirably
full-throated defence of Rushdie’s right to publish, but, as Bangstad
suggests, since then a kind of ‘free speech absolutism’ has steadily
chipped away at any concern for minority protections against racist and
discriminatory speech, which are guaranteed by Norwegian law. A popular
narrative had emerged that Muslims were uncomfortable with free speech,
and that there was an irreconcilable conflict between Norwegian ‘values’
and Muslim ‘culture’. The press became ‘an arena for confrontation
rather than dialogue’ – a forum for inflammatory views about Islam.
Tolerance for ‘free speech’ has been widely construed as a loyalty test.
‘The right to offend bishops and imams is absolutely central to our way
of life,’ Per Edgar Kokkvold, the secretary-general of the Norwegian
Press Association, has explained. ‘If they happen to dislike it, they
must leave.’"

"How leading Tor developers and advocates tried to smear me after I reported their US Government ties" Tor is another trap to herd the politically inconvenient into one place to make government oppression more convenient.

Saturday, November 15, 2014

"The judge who
spearheaded the Quebec probe into systemic wrongdoing in the province’s
construction industry urged all citizens on Friday to do their part to
fight corruption and collusion.

“Whistle-blowing must
no longer be viewed as an act of betrayal but needs to be strongly
encouraged as a gesture of great loyalty to companies, the civil service
and society as a whole,” France Charbonneau said in her closing
statement.

“Laws and regulations
are not enough to overcome collusion and corruption, so that’s why we
must all do our bit. We must seize the opportunity to change things for
the benefit of everyone.”"

"#BBCTrending: Syrian 'hero boy' video faked by Norwegian director" This kind of anti-Assad propaganda - I'd like to know who funds the Shaam News Network - just encourages the conspiracy theories of World Jewry, who are obsessed with the idea that the evidence of all the monstrous atrocities committed daily by the Jews are faked Palestinian movie productions: "‘Pallywood’: A particularly ugly ethnic slur" "Day of catastrophe for ‘Pallywood’ conspiracy theorists" "‘Pallywood’ Killing Was Exactly What It Looked Like"

"No Debate and the New War" The Jew-controlled media won't allow dissent in promoting Wars For The Jews.

"When Little Dubya Bush came to power in early 2001, the neo-cons were
faced with a stark fact: it was just a matter of time before the US
would irreversibly lose its global geopolitical and economic hegemony.
So there were only two choices; either manage the decline, or bet the
whole farm to consolidate global hegemony using - what else - war.

We all know about the wishful thinking enveloping the "low-cost" war on
Iraq - from Paul Wolfowitz's "We are the new OPEC" to the fantasy of
Washington being able to decisively intimidate all potential
challengers, the EU, Russia and China.

And we all know how it went spectacularly wrong. Even as that trillionaire adventure, as Minqi Li analyzed in The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy,
"has squandered US imperialism's remaining space for strategic
maneuver", the humanitarian imperialists of the Obama administration
still have not given up, refusing to admit the US has lost any ability
to provide any meaningful solution to the current, as Immanuel
Wallerstein would define it, world-system."

Thursday, November 13, 2014

"Dem Think Tank Secret Email: ‘All Hands On Deck’ to Sell Iran Deal to Public" (part of the concerted attempt by World Jewry to derail peace between gentiles; I assume the "D.C.-based organization" is AIPAC):

"One senior foreign policy hand at a D.C.-based organization called Truman’s email “reckless.”
“It’s reckless but not surprising,” said the source, who would only
discuss the email on background. “The Truman Institute long ago stopped
being a real policy shop and instead became a PR machine for the Obama
administration’s foreign policy. The White House will take a deal no
matter what, so the Truman Institute is pushing a deal no matter what.”"

"Assange and the European Arrest Warrant" The weird hatred of The Guardian for Assange comes in part from his publicly embarrassing 'journalists' from The Guardian for incompetently releasing the password for the 'Cablegate' archive, thus forcing WikiLeaks to release the entire archive.

"Petrodollar Panic? China Signs Currency Swap Deal With Qatar & Canada" American commentators are either ignoring or dismissing the importance of an obvious world-wide effort to put an end to the evils of the American Empire by depriving it of the financing provided by the world reserve currency status of the American dollar. People are tired of all the Wars For The Jews.

"As conditions worsen in Gaza, residents ask: ‘Where have all the activists gone?’" As predicted, Israel is free to go on its merry genocidal way as long as bombs aren't actually falling.

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

"Adelson and Saban Try To Out-Hawk Each Other" "Sheldon Adelson: Palestinians are made-up nation that exists only to destroy Israel" Useful reminder of the mindset of the Jewish billionaires who determine American policy.

Sunday, November 09, 2014

"Review of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler" by George Orwell (March 1940) (note how much this is exactly like today's United States, where the only two available jobs are prison guard or soldier):

"What he envisages, a hundred years hence, is a continuous state of 250
million Germans with plenty of “living room” (i.e. stretching to
Afghanistan or thereabouts), a horrible brainless empire in which,
essentially, nothing ever happens except the training of young men for
war and the endless breeding of fresh cannon-fodder. How was it that he
was able to put this monstrous decision across?"

and:

". . . he has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly
all western thought since the last war, certainly all “progressive”
thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond
ease, security and avoidance of pain. In such a view of life there is no
room, for instance, for patriotism and the military virtues. The
Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset,
but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin
pacifists somehow won’t do. Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he
feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don’t
only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control
and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want
struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and
loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and
Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of
life. The same is probably true of Stalin’s militarized version of
Socialism. All three of the great dictators have enhanced their power by
imposing intolerable burdens on their peoples. Whereas Socialism, and
even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to people “I offer you
a good time,” Hitler has said to them “I offer you struggle, danger and
death,” and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet.
Perhaps later on they will get sick of it and change their minds, as at
the end of the last war. After a few years of slaughter and starvation
“Greatest happiness of the greatest number” is a good slogan, but at
this moment “Better an end with horror than a horror without end” is a
winner. Now that we are fighting against the man who coined it, we ought
not to underrate its emotional appeal."

"The rules of that war are very different. Imagine you’re a young guy sitting at a café in, say, Tunis.

There are no jobs in Tunis. There isn’t much that connects you to anyone, except Islam, which—in theory—unites all Muslims in friendship. It doesn’t work that way in practice, of course, as Muslims from poor countries find when they take jobs in the Gulf—and Lord, do they get mad!–but it’s still the only cheerful idea in your world, as you sit there nursing a coffee all day.

Imagine being that guy, and jihad doesn’t seem like such a crazy idea. You don’t even have to imagine being a Tunisian; I can give you an All-American example from the other side of the fight in Kobane. Jordan Matson, a 28-year old American, joined the YPG after getting out of the US Army and ending up doing night shifts in a meat-packing plant.

I’m not pretending that YPG and IS are morally equal. They’re not. YPG is a secular, gender-neutral local militia defending its home town against fucking monsters, and IS is the monster in question, one of the vilest groups around. But the life-story, the motives, the experiences, of Jordan Matson and the average Tunisian recruit aren’t that different. Jihad, on either side, beats graveyard shift in Wisconsin or unemployment in Tunis.

So if you’re that potential IS recruit in Tunis, you’re watching the news from Kobane, but you’re watching it your way. You don’t worry too much about the atrocity stories coming out about IS. Young men have a great tolerance, let us say, for such things. In fact, many of them have a great deal more than tolerance—something more like enthusiasm, and I speak from my own embarrassing experience of a celibate adolescence.

As for sex slavery, it can look very different, if you’re a celibate young man sitting in a Tunis café with no job, than it looks to a New York Times pundit. As William Butler Yeats said a century ago, noting the, er, unusual eagerness of young Irish Catholic males to get themselves killed fighting better-trained and –armed regulars, celibate young men raised in sex-segregated environments get very excited at the idea of war and martyrdom. My hand is the first to be raised here, my old bald head blushing. I’m not one of those old “bald heads forgetful of their sins” that Yeats described; I remember my sins all too well, even if they were mostly imagined. And the average young man in Tunis or Riyadh has been raised in an atmosphere every bit as devout and celibate as the one which forged the martyrs of Yeats’s Ireland.

If you really want to venture into this territory—and it’s very, very embarrassing territory, believe me—you should read an amazing book called Male Fantasies.

The author is an annoying German academic, and the writing is tedious as Hell, but the idea is amazing: A look at the fantasies about women that motivated the young men who joined the Freikorps, the volunteer military forces of Weimar-era Germany. The book argues, in its slow, earnest German way, that these fantasies are ordinary, but very creepy, male ideas leading direct from dumb-ass dreams about girls, to the fatal decision to march off with the Freikorps. And if you were to look for a 21st version of the Freikorps…Ladies and gents, may I present Islamic State?"

Thursday, November 06, 2014

"The hidden documents that reveal the true borders of Israel and Palestine (Updated)" As some of the comments note, this is very sophisticated and tricky pro-settler hasbara.

"Chickenshitgate: A dissenting view" A lot of good points, but there is no serious way to read this strange incident other than as a Goldberg-Netanyahu-Rhodes conspiracy (and the timing right before the mid-term elections is no accident). It is useful to be reminded, however, of how ideologically Zionist Bibi - and every other Israeli leader - has always been (i.e., absolutely no chance of a Palestinian state from any of them). Btw, did Sheldon Adelson hold a party to celebrate the Israeli win?

"Is the Justice Department Shielding an Anti-Iran Smear Campaign?" Another bizarre story of American subservience to Zionism, particularly so as the State Department simultaneously seems to be operating mostly in good faith to get a deal with Iran.

Tuesday, November 04, 2014

"Free College or Another New War?: The reason the United States is effectively a third world country for 99% of its citizens is the cost of all the Wars For The Jews. The phony differences between the two American political parties are engineered to cover up this single defining fact of American politics. The problems will continue until the single defining fact is openly acknowledged, and the perps made to pay.

"Julian Assange: Cyber-Libertarian or Cyber-Anarchist?" The worship - and that's exactly the right word - of the mythological creature known as the 'free market' is quite a remarkable and deadly mistake.

Sunday, November 02, 2014

Lunacy: "Iran poised to choose poverty over nuclear disarmament" Corrective: "Covering Iran in the US press".

Lunacy: "Intercept and transparancy" ('Angry' is so confused about whose side Greenwald is really on that he calls him 'Comrade Greenwald'!). Corrective: "Slugfest Over Taibbi Exodus From First Look Fails to Address Editorial Meddling Doubts". Also: tweet (WikiLeaks):

Lunacy (there are innumerable examples in the American mainstream media): "Putin's Reaction To Sanctions Is Destroying The Economy And China Won't Help" Corrective: "Michael Hudson: Europe to Pay for the Whole Mess in Ukraine".

It is not in the least surprising that complete nonsense informs most of the political choices that are made.